A Best Book of the Year in HARPER'S BAZAAR, BBC, THE NEW YORKER, GLAMOUR, GAL-DEM and HUFFPOST 'Witty and thought-provoking' Stylist 'Blistering' Glamour 'Unusual, original and strikingly contemporary' Guardian 'Absolutely brilliant' Ruth Ozeki 'A gripping contemporary fable about embracing difference' The Times 'A wholly 21st century take on bloodsucking' Observer Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try sashimi and ramen, onigiri and udon - the food her Japanese father liked to eat - but the only thing she can digest ...
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A Best Book of the Year in HARPER'S BAZAAR, BBC, THE NEW YORKER, GLAMOUR, GAL-DEM and HUFFPOST 'Witty and thought-provoking' Stylist 'Blistering' Glamour 'Unusual, original and strikingly contemporary' Guardian 'Absolutely brilliant' Ruth Ozeki 'A gripping contemporary fable about embracing difference' The Times 'A wholly 21st century take on bloodsucking' Observer Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try sashimi and ramen, onigiri and udon - the food her Japanese father liked to eat - but the only thing she can digest is blood. Yet Lydia can't bring herself to prey on humans, and sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London - where she is living away from her Malaysian-British mother for the first time and trying to build a career as an artist - is much more difficult than she'd anticipated. If Lydia is to find a way to exist in the world, she must reconcile the conflicts within her - between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage and her relationship with food, and, in turn, humans. Before any of this, however, she must eat. 'It's Kohda's exploration of Lydia's inner world, the pain and longing she feels as an outsider, that makes Woman, Eating such a delicious novel' New York Times Book Review 'A profound meditation on alienation and appetite, and what it means to be a young woman who experiences life at an acute level of intensity and awareness' LISA HARDING 'What Stoker did for the vampire at the end of the nineteenth century, Claire Kohda does for for it in our own era' TLS
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There used to be a time when fiction shelves were full of Vampire stories. With Twilight and its sparkly-skinned romance angle being the peak, we've seen a lot of attempts to re-invent the classic Dracula story to meet modern day society. This has usually led to me rolling my eyes whenever vampire stories are mentioned, however Woman, Eating is a really refreshing take on a saturated genre.
The novella focuses on Lydia, who is half-human, half-vampire as she tries to navigate life without her mother's guidance. I liked the way that the vampire-ism worked, an aching hunger with the blood she drinks transferring some of the characteristics and emotions of the thing she has eaten. I also liked Lydia's obsession with 'eat with me' style YouTube videos, looking at people eating food she could never eat or enjoy herself. I also liked the inclusion of the slimy boss at the gallery and the exploitation of the 'interns' that worked there which really helped to make the book stand out in the here and now.
I do wish there was a little more 'meat' to the book though, if you'll excuse the pun. I would have loved to have found out more about other vampires, for example, or more about the history of how her mother was turned. A lot of the book is focussed on a love story between her and a boy who has a partner and doesn't seem to be very interesting which was a shame. Lydia spends a lot of time almost dying from hunger and I found her lack of self-preservation to be a little unrealistic. I would have loved the book to be a bit longer (it's sitting on about 250 pages at the moment), and have more backstory, some grittier content and maybe a more defined plot. This feels very much like a first draft in its current state.
Overall, Woman, Eating is a great first draft at a story - but I'd love it to be worked on more to create something really special. Thank you to NetGalley & Little Brown Book UK - Virago for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
